Midterm Questions Of ARM

Q.No.1: A retailer of personal computers just received a shipment of 30 units of a new model.
The store has a quality agreement with the manufacturer which states that four of the
machines are to be selected for a thorough performance check. If more than one fails a
performance test, the shipment is returned. Suppose the retailer did not know that 5 of
the 30 incoming personal computers are defective. Compute the probability that exactly
two computers of the four selected at random are defective.

Q.No.2: The length of time a domestic flight must wait between gate departure and takeoff taxi at
Boston’s Logan International Airport is approximately normally distributed with a mean
of 20 minutes and a standard deviation of 5 minutes.
A) What is the probability a plane must wait between 22 and 30 minutes before taxiing for
takeoff
B) What is the probability a plane waits more than 12 minutes between gate departure
and takeoff

Q.No.3: Burger Shack claims that the mean number of grams of fat, μ , in its Lotta Burger is 24
grams with a standard deviation, σ, of 5 grams. If a sample of 50 Lotta Burgers is taken,
what is the probability that the sample mean is 25 grams or more ?